BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
The dial is at first floor level on the south side of the pub. It was made in 1994. Some while later the pub burnt down and the dial was removed and a new gnomon was made and refixed by the owner on the rebuilt and extended pub. We do not know if it is correctly aligned.
The motto is a fragment from a play by the Greek playwright Menander, but is perhaps better known in Plautus’ Latin version: ’Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur’. In either case it can be translated as ’Those whom the gods love die young’.
2015
Rose & Crown Public House, Stoke St Gregory, TA3 6EW, Somerset
